You know, for me this is only different from "And she stepped out into the street and a truck hit her" in the sense that it allows for the nasty shenanigans being pulled in the following chapter. I have no respect for this development, it's gratuitous.
Somehow although objectively maybe it's not that terrible a move, subjectively for me it just breaks me out of the manga. It's weird, from being fascinated I'm suddenly just not interested any more. It's like, I suddenly shifted from feeling like I was reading about a life, to feeling like I was reading a plot being managed to maintain my angst levels, and I lost the immersion.
I completely agree, and not just on a personal level. It's bad storytelling to go on this far.
To have a downward slope where one bad thing after another happens without any upswing or hope in between it quick to lose the interest of a reader. Usually if you're going to have a bad ending you set the audience's hope's really high that it will turn out good before you crash it down, and vice versa for a good end. All seems lost? Well, chances are they're about to make a really fulfilling comeback. (You see this pattern more because audiences tend to enjoy good ends, but the reverse shows up sometimes too.)
That's the gist of the simple version of it. (And this can be broken skillfully, but this is not that.) Obviously you don't want a story to be predictable, but this story is just....boring. It's bad, and it keeps getting worse. No blips of anything else on the radar. In some ways, it IS terribly predictable, and I only check to see what's happening in reader comments before skimming through a few pages unemotionally.
From what I remember back when I started reading this with much less chapters, this story had a promising start, exciting even, before the pattern became obvious and overdone.
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